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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I personally think the person who posted this is not being truthful. If she is, she is not thinking things through and has no idea the monster she just created.  So, you have 50 employees, probably a small budget to work with, right?

Say, 5 women/men all have a baby coming at the same time, you are down 5 employees for 6 months? That is not sustainable and if you think your current employees are going to just pick up their slack, well...come back and let us know how that worked out for you.[/quote]

All the more reason we should have a national insurance program for parental leave.  Sure it's not sustainable for very small business, but it is very much sustainable for a fortune 150 company I work for.  They just don't want to do it because they value their CEO's bonuses more than they value their young women. [/quote]

We are in total agreement here. I try to make my organization a great place to be. I want to let the new mom and dad have 4 months of leave, but I also know I have employees that have kids at home and they don't want to pick up their slack, it puts them in this awful position of feeling like they can't support their colleague and be there for their kids for dinner. I think this was mentioned by someone else above too. It does happen, it does cause a lot of resentment. It was eye opening to me because I thought I was being progressive with our new 4 month leave policy, but then I had more people in my office pissed than happy, and sadly, a lot of them were women. As an HR professional, I have to take into account all sides. You would be shocked at some of the comments I get. I had a 25 year old woman come into my office and ask that she be given a leave benefit that is in line with our maternity/paternity leave policy, because I quote....I didn't spend 60K a year to be a birthing machine and don't ever plan to use this benefit. I'm not kidding, the stuff that comes my way, it's shocking. [/quote]

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